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The Many Lives of Romare Bearden
An abstract expressionist and master of collage, an intellectual and outspoken activist, Bearden evolved as much as his times did.
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Nell Irvin Painter
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The Nation
on
August 26, 2019
How We Think About the Term 'Enslaved' Matters
The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.
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Nell Irvin Painter
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The Guardian
on
August 14, 2019
Book
I Just Keep Talking
: A Life in Essays
Nell Irvin Painter
2024
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Nell Irvin Painter’s Chronicles of Freedom
A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.
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America Needs an Education in Whiteness
Not a white equivalent of Black History Month, but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts.
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Jordan Lindsey
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February 22, 2019
Expanding the Boundaries of Reconstruction: Abolitionist Democracy from 1865-1919
Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.
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The Remarkable Untold Story of Sojourner Truth
Feminist. Preacher. Abolitionist. Civil rights pioneer. Now the full story of the American icon's life and faith is finally coming to light.
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Two Recent Movies Help Us Connect the Dots Between Jim Crow and Fascism
With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever.
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Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts
Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha C. Ford explain the importance of biographical writing of African American women and the personal connection involved.
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Ashley D. Farmer
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Tanisha C. Ford
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Black Perspectives
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May 31, 2022
The Danger of a Single Origin Story
The 1619 Project and contested foundings.
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Emily Sclafani
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February 9, 2022
On Our Knees
What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.
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Farah Peterson
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The American Scholar
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September 7, 2021
Public Money without Public Goods
By documenting how public debt produced our present nightmare, Destin Jenkins allows us to dream about using public money to mend the ills of our era.
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David Stein
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LPE Project
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August 19, 2021
The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.
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Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
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December 23, 2019